Tournaments

Tournaments

Playing in a tournament is a great way of getting a competitive game of Tennis. Most of the Club’s tournaments are participation-style tournaments (not knock-out events). Only the Annual Club Championships and the University of Queensland Championships use knock-out formats for all events. The University Open Championships use knock-out formats for the Australian Ranking Points events but include participation-style events for the ‘average’ player. All tournaments are part of the Club Grand Prix.

The 13 participation-style tournaments in the Club’s 2018 Tournament Calendar:

cater for players of all standards (most offer events at 4 levels)

use formats that keep everybody playing irrespective of results (most use round-robins)

are played to completion in a single night or morning

are open to non-members (who will be granted free Restricted Membership to enable entry)

Entries can be lodged using the printed entry forms (which are available from the Clubhouse or can be downloaded from this website) or on-line using the Tennis Australia Tournamenst On-Line entry system which can be accessed at https://tournaments.tennis.com.au*.

* Tennis Australia has made its tournament on-line entry system needlessly complicated. When players go to enter on-line, they are asked to create a Tournament account if they don't already have one. To create a Tournament account, players need their 11-digit Tennis Australia My Tennis Player ID Number. Unfortunately, although the TA tournament on-line entry system still requires the 11-digit Player ID Number, Tennis Australia has stopped issuing Player ID Numbers automatically for new players being registered through My Tennis (as it is switching to using player e-mail addresses for identification purposes). This means that players who do not have a Player ID Number, or don't remember their number, need to contact Tennis Australia via play@tennis.com.au or 1800 752 983 to obtain their number or have a number created for them (information required - name, postal address, unique e-mail address, birthdate and a phone number).